Eyja M. J. Brynjarsdóttir
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Research

Areas of research

While I started out in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, my research in recent years has been within social philosophy. My focus areas are feminist philosophy, applied ethics, and social ontology. I am currently thinking a lot about issues concerning social power dynamics and the motivation of social movements, the notion of humanity and its role in moral thought, and various things related to the #MeToo movement. I’m also interested in epistemic injustice, gaslighting and other forms of manipulation, economic inequality, and the status of women in science and academia, to name a few of my slightly too many interests.


Ethics in Motion: Feminist Ethics and #MeToo

I am, together with some wonderful colleagues, running the project Ethics in Motion: Feminist Ethics and #MeToo which is funded by the Icelandic Research Fund from 2023 to 2026. We are exploring the effects of the #MeToo movement on moral thought and investigating various issues at the intersection of ethics and #MeToo. For more information on this project, see here.


The Reality of Money

I was the principal investigator of the project The Reality of Money, funded by the Icelandic Research Fund, from 2015 through 2017. My book, The Reality of Money: The Metaphysics of Financial Value, is a product of this project and is due out in the Values and Identities series by Rowman & Littlefield International in October 2018. It is on the ontology of money, enlightened by various social and political issues.


Feminist Philosophy Transforming Philosophy

I was involved in the project Feminist Philosophy Transforming Philosophy, located at the University of Iceland, from 2015 to 2017. The project was dedicated to exposing how feminist philosophy can be a transformative power within philosophy as an academic discipline.